Greggs Miniature Imaginations is dedicated to different craft projects that I am inspired to create, from my unstoppable imagination and love of miniatures.

Sunday, January 15, 2017

Merchantile Store and Gas Pump

Hi everyone, I had spent almost 4 months not building any miniature houses to take a break, but I was going crazy from boredom and was inspired by the picture on the right to build my own Mercantile Store. I created the house out of a ton of cardboard and paperclay for all the bricks, lots of popsicle sticks for the porch floors and interior floors and match sticks for all the railing spindles. I think one of my favorite things to create was the vintage gas pump out front of the building, which I scoured my junk drawers and boxes to find small pieces that might all go together to create the gas pump. I just wanted to share my latest project to hopefully inspire others. I did get to inspired building this house I again forgot to take a lot of step by step pictures. Have a wonderful month everyone! Stan

The only picture I found that inspired me to create the building from.

The house painted brown base color before I paint on the crackle paint, and then the white paint on top of the crackle paint once its dry, then I wipe on and smear it with a watered down brown paint to give it a dirty aged look.

all the little pieces I found to create the gas pump from. Then painted red, printed up some small gas station signs to glue on and then aged with some brown paint.

8 comments:

Hi Stan! Your mercantile and gas pump are Great! Love the wrap around porch which for me brings a flavor of the Old West to this building. I think that your composition of different components to make the gas pump is Amazing! I always love looking at your work, and I am happy to see that you are back at it once again. :))

Hi Stan,By chance, I found your blog on the Internet. I was immediately impressed by your houses you did. Everything looks so realistic. I have linked you to our blog, so I can now regularly look at you. Perhaps you visit our blog, our small group. We would be glad. http://freundeskreisschwaben.blogspot.de/

Your productivity is amazing and the results so beautiful. Can I ask how you created your lovely store sign? I am currently trying to finish a quilting shop in 1/12th scale (based on a Greenleaf Willowcrest kit) and it needs a sign for the front and I don't know how to tackle it. I'm hoping I can do something with my PC and printer as I wouldn't be able to hand paint one.

About Me

I have been a crafter every since I can remember. When I was a kid I would rather build something out of the cardboard box a gift came in than play with the gift. In my free time I am usually building something, or painting something, or tearing it apart. I live for building miniatures, and remodeling and redecorating my home. My imagination never stops, I see miniatures in almost everything I see. My hope is to inspire people with my creations, like I have been inspired by theirs.